Skyscraper No. 1 in Yekaterinburg

The churches in the 18th, 19th, and first third of the 20th centuries were the undisputed, sole dominants of Yekaterinburg at that time. However, since the mid-1930s, significant changes have begun in urban planning. The first high-rise was built at 8 Marta Street, 2. It became one of the two buildings of the residential complex "The Second House of Soviets" (another name for it is "The First town of the Chekists"). Architects: Ivan Pavlovich Antonov and Veniamin Dmitrievich Sokolov.

The "Second House of Soviets" was commissioned in 1931. The complex consisted of two buildings:

• A 4-storey seven-entrance brick residential building, which had 63 apartments and its own garden. Small one-bedroom apartments in the house were adjacent to huge (up to 180 meters) 5-7-room apartments. It was in this house that the first President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, Soviet metallurgists Vissarion Sadovsky and Nikolai Vatolin lived at one time.
• The 11-storey residential brick tower house is the first high-rise building in the city. Outside of Moscow, this eleven-storey building became one of the tallest buildings in the RSFSR in the 1930s.

Subsequently, the entire residential complex received the status of an architectural monument of federal significance. It presents a rare combination of constructivism and neoclassicism. Architectural features of the complex: the plan has the shape of a sickle, the entrances are decorated with columns of black labradorite.